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'''Amancay Diana Sacayán''' (31 December 1975<ref name=Clarin18>{{cite news |date=2018-06-18 |title=Quién era Diana Sacayán, la activista trans asesinada |trans-title=Who was Diana Sacayán, the murdered trans activist |url=https://www.clarin.com/sociedad/diana-sacayan-activista-trans-asesinada_0_r1bewQBZ7.html |work=[[Clarín (Argentine newspaper)|Clarín]] |access-date=2024-06-13 |language=es}}</ref> – 11 October 2015)<ref name=Agencia52518/> was an Argentinian [[LGBT]] and [[human rights]] activist who fought for the legal rights of [[Travesti (gender identity)|travesti]] and [[transgender people]] in [[Argentina]].

She founded the Anti-Discrimination Movement of Liberation (MAL)<ref name=Agencia52518/> and was part of the National Front for the Gender Identity Act in Argentina during public debate on [[Gender Identity Law (Argentina)|Law 26,743 on Gender Identity]].<ref name=Clarin18/> In June 2012, she became the first trans person to run for [[Ombudsman]], running for [[La Matanza Partido]].<ref name=Clarin18/> On 2 July 2012, she became the first Argentine trans person to receive a national identity card affirming her gender.<ref>{{cite news |date=2012-07-01 |title=La Presidenta entregará el nuevo DNI a la travesti matancera y candidata a ombudsman local Diana Sacayán |trans-title=The President will deliver the new DNI to the transvestite from Matanzas and candidate for local ombudsman Diana Sacayán |url=https://periodicosic.com.ar/2012/07/01/la-presidenta-entregara-el-nuevo-dni-a-la-travesti-matancera-y-candidata-a-ombudsman-local-diana-sacayan/ |work=Periodico S!C |language=es |access-date=2024-06-13}}</ref> It was handed to her by then-President [[Cristina Fernández de Kirchner|Cristina Kirchner]].<ref name=infobae2019/>

Sacayán was murdered on 11 October 2015.<ref name="elpaistravesticidio"/> On 18 June 2018, Oral Criminal Court 4 of [[Buenos Aires]] convicted one of her murderers, handing down a judgement that recognized, for the first time in the Argentine criminal justice system, the murder of a travesti as a [[hate crime]] involving [[gender identity]].<ref name="elpaistravesticidio"/> Provisions in Article 80, paragraph 4 of the [[Penal Code of Argentina]] were applied in reaching the decision.<ref name=Agencia52518/> However, that aspect of the grisly murder was nullified in a decision by the National Chamber of Cassation in Criminal and Correctional Matters on 2 October 2020, though the sentence of life imprisonment was upheld.<ref name=Clarin2020/>

== Biography ==
Amancay Diana Sacayán was born in [[Tucumán]] on 31 December 1975. Her ancestors were [[Diaguita]]. At a young age, her family moved to [[Gregorio de Laferrère, Buenos Aires]]. She led a life of poverty with her 15 siblings.<ref name=Clarin18/>

Sacayán came out as travesti at the age of seventeen.<ref>{{cite news |date=2018-11-10 |title=Diana corazón: a tres años del travesticidio |trans-title=Diana love: three years after transvesticicide |url=https://www.cosecharoja.org/diana-corazon-tres-anos-del-travesticidio/ |work=Cosecha Roja |access-date=2024-06-13 |language=es}}</ref> She received [[Breast implant|silicone]] injections in both her breasts and buttocks from a fellow travesti, a procedure she did not recommend to others because of hygiene concerns.<ref name=LP2003-CP/>{{rp|7}} Sacayán worked as a prostitute for twelve years<ref name=P12-cand>{{cite news |last=Magnani |first=Rocio |date=2012-07-25 |title=Una candidata no convencional |trans-title=An unconventional candidate |url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/sociedad/3-199487-2012-07-25.html |work=[[Página 12|Pagina 12]] |language=es |access-date=2024-06-15}}</ref> before moving fully into activism in 2001.<ref name=LP2003-CP/>{{rp|7}}

She studied [[Popular education|Popular Education]] at the Universidad de las Madres.<ref name=P12-cand/>

== Activism ==
===Candidacy===
Sacayán ran for the position of school counselor with the [[Communist Party of Argentina|Communist Party]] for the election held on 24 August 2003.<ref name=LP2003-CP>{{cite news |last=Moreno |first=María |date=2003-07-27 |title=La zona roja |trans-title=The Red Zone |url=https://archive.org/details/BNA_S001207768_20030727N00363_Rar/page/4/ |work=[[La Izquierda Diario]] |access-date=2024-06-14 |language=es}}</ref>{{rp|4}}

She ran for the position of [[Ombudsman]] of La Matanza Partido in 2012, becoming the first transgender candidate for such a position.<ref name=P12-cand/> Sacayán  was an independent in the election, one of seven candidates.<ref>{{cite news |last=Kappeler |first=Claudio |date=2012-10-31 |title=Llega la elección del Defensor del Pueblo con todas las miradas puestas en Caprino |trans-title=The election of the Ombudsman arrives with all eyes on Caprino |url=https://periodicosic.com.ar/2012/10/31/llega-la-eleccion-del-defensor-del-pueblo-con-todas-las-miradas-puestas-en-caprino/ |work=Periódico S!C |access-date=2024-06-23 |language=es}}</ref> The field was narrowed to three candidates before the 24 councillors voted on 7 November 2012: incumbent Silvia Caprino, Sacayán, and Omar Frade.<ref>{{cite news |date=2012-11-05 |title=Caprino quedó a un paso de la re-reelección |trans-title=Caprino was one step away from re-election |url=https://periodicosic.com.ar/2012/11/05/caprino-quedo-a-un-paso-de-la-re-reeleccion/ |work=Periódico S!C |access-date=2024-06-23 |language=es}}</ref> Sacayán received the second-highest number of votes in the election, with Caprino retaining her office after receiving 17 votes.<ref>{{cite news |date=2012-11-07 |title=Caprino sigue siendo la defensora del Pueblo |trans-title=Caprino continues to be the defender of the People |url=https://periodicosic.com.ar/2012/11/07/caprino-sigue-siendo-la-defensora-del-pueblo/ |work=Periódico S!C |access-date=2024-06-23 |language=es}}</ref>

===Organizations===
Sacayán created the Anti-Discrimination Movement of Liberation (MAL), a [[non-governmental organization]], in 2001.<ref name="elpaistravesticidio"/> One of the main goals of the group is to emphasize empowering [[LGBTI]] persons through meeting basic [[human rights]], from employment training and certification programs<ref>{{cite news |date=2013-11-29 |title=Personas trans recibieron certificados de formación y empleo |trans-title=Trans people received training and employment certificates |url=https://periodicosic.com.ar/2013/11/29/personas-trans-recibieron-certificados-de-formacion-y-empleo/ |work=Periódico S!C |language=es |access-date=2023-06-24}}</ref> to the establishment of a health office for both mental and physical healthcare needs in the LGBT community in both [[Morón, Buenos Aires|Morón]]<ref>{{cite news |date=2014-06-25 |title=Se firmó convenio de Servicio de Salud Inclusivo en Morón |trans-title=Inclusive Health Service agreement was signed in Morón |url=https://periodicosic.com.ar/2014/06/25/se-firmo-convenio-de-servicio-de-salud-inclusivo-en-moron/ |work=Periódico S!C |language=es |access-date=2023-06-24}}</ref> and La Matanza.<ref>{{cite news |date=2015-08-12 |title=La Matanza inauguró consultorio de salud integral e inclusión de diversidad sexual |trans-title=La Matanza inaugurated a comprehensive health and sexual diversity inclusion clinic |url=https://periodicosic.com.ar/2015/08/12/la-matanza-inauguro-consultorio-de-salud-integral-e-inclusion-de-diversidad-sexual-en-la-descentralizada-de-ramos-mejia/ |work=Periódico S!C |language=es |access-date=2023-06-24}}</ref> Sacayán and MAL regularly worked to overcome the idea of prostitution being a viable and genuine career<ref name=TelamAV-f6eO_I7GnNM/> rather than a direct result of a lack of employment opportunities.<ref>{{cite conference |last=Lopez |first=Daniela |date=2018 |title=Ley de cupo laboral trans "Diana Sacayan", una lucha abolicionista |work=I Congreso Abolicionista Internacional |trans-title=Trans labor quota law "Diana Sacayan", an abolitionist struggle |url=https://www.academia.edu/38878017 |conference=[[International Abolitionist Federation|I Congreso Abolicionista Internacional]] |via=[[Academia.edu]] |access-date=2024-06-23}}</ref> The tenets of inclusion of travesti, [[transsexual]], and transgender persons eventually led to the creation of the National Gender Identity Law.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://servicios.infoleg.gob.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/195000-199999/197860/norma.htm |title=Ley Nacional de Identidad de Género |trans-title=National Gender Identity Law |language=es |access-date=31 October 2016 |website=servicios.infoleg.gob.ar}}</ref> In addition to her work with MAL, Sacayán also served on the board of the [[International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association]].<ref name="ref00">{{cite web |last=Glum |first=Julia |url=https://www.ibtimes.com/who-diana-sacayan-transgender-activist-argentina-found-dead-after-possible-hate-crime-2142072 |title= Who Is Diana Sacayán? Transgender Activist In Argentina Found Dead After Possible Hate Crime|website= [[International Business Times]]|date= 15 October 2015|url-status=live|access-date=26 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016125247/http://www.ibtimes.com/who-diana-sacayan-transgender-activist-argentina-found-dead-after-possible-hate-crime-2142072 |archive-date=2015-10-16}}</ref>

The Ministry of Health of Buenos Aires released a statement, reproduced by the media, in which MAL is directly named as contributing to the passage of Resolution 2359, in accordance with law 13.175 (equal access to healthcare), on 5 July 2007 which required that all medical personnel in the province of Buenos Aires address patients by their preferred names.<ref>{{cite press release |date=2007-05-30 |title=Personas travestis serán llamadas por el nombre de elección |trans-title=Transvestites will be called by the name of their choice |url=https://www.anred.org/2007/05/30/personas-travestis-seran-llamadas-por-el-nombre-de-eleccion/ |work=Ministry of Health of Buenos Aires |via=Agencia de Noticias RedAcción |access-date=2024-06-14 |language=es}}</ref> The city of [[Santa Fe, Argentina|Santa Fe]] passed similar legislation, Resolution 1877/09, as did the city of Buenos Aires, Law 3.062.<ref>{{Cite report |last1=López |first1=Noella |last2=Amorín |first2=Eva |date=2012 |title=Serie Participación Comunitaria: Derechos sexuales y reproductivos {{!}} Hacemos campaña por nuestros derechos. |trans-title=Community Engagement Series: Sexual and reproductive rights. {{!}} We campaign for our rights. |url=https://www.saludneuquen.gob.ar/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Ministerio-Salud-Neuqu%C3%A9n_Salud-Sexual-y-Reproductiva-Derechos_sexuales_y_reproductivos.pdf |publisher=Ministerio de Salud de la Nación |page=54 |language=es |access-date=2024-06-15 }}</ref>

MAL and several other groups advocated for the eligibility of the trans community in Argentina to receive the constitutionally-guaranteed adequate housing in 2009.<ref name=ANR-FHP>{{cite press release |last1=Sacayán |first1=Diana |last2=Arias |first2=Dario |last3=Luna |first3=Noelia |date=2009-06-12 |title=17/6 10 hs Travestis se manifiestan por vivienda en San Justo|trans-title=6/17 10 a.m. Transvestites demonstrate for housing in San Justo |url=https://www.anred.org/2009/06/13/17-6-10-hs-travestis-se-manifiestan-por-vivienda-en-san-justo/ |work=Agencia de Noticias RedAcción |access-date=2024-06-14 |language=es}}</ref> Despite the right enshrined in Article 14a of the National Constitution, transgender, transsexual and travesti  persons were denied inclusion in the Federal Housing Plan under President Cristina Kirchner's administration.<ref name=ANR-FHP/>

Alongside Berkins' Association for the Struggle for Travesti and Transsexual Identity (ALITT),<ref>{{cite news |last=Sacayán |first=Diana |date=2011-09-30 |title=La vida nueva |trans-title=A new life |url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/suplementos/soy/1-2138-2011-09-30.html |work=[[Página 12]] |access-date=2024-06-23 |language=es}}</ref> Sacayán also helped establish the Silvia Rivera cooperative, a group focused on training members of the trans community for careers in the food service and catering industry.<ref name=SRcoop>{{cite news |last=Tobar |first=Ángela  |date=2012-05-11 |title=La primera cooperativa trans exige apoyo municipal para poder trabajar |trans-title=The first trans cooperative requires municipal support to be able to work |url=https://periodicosic.com.ar/2012/05/11/la-primera-cooperativa-trans-exige-apoyo-municipal-para-poder-trabajar/ |work=Periódico S!C |access-date=2024-06-23 |language=es}}</ref> They registered with the INAES [[:es:Instituto Nacional de Asociativismo y Economía Social|[es]]] while trying to establish the restaurant in La Matanza for training.<ref name=LaCiu-SRcoop>{{cite news |last=Molina |first=Silvina |date=2011-10-25 |title=Cooperativas de trabajo, la salida laboral para los trans |trans-title=Work cooperatives, the job option for trans people |url=https://www.elciudadanoweb.com/cooperativas-de-trabajo-la-salida-laboral-para-los-trans/ |work=El Ciudadano y la Región |access-date=2024-06-23 |language=es}}</ref> Mayor [[Fernando Espinoza (politician)|Fernando Espinoza]] stymied the development of the cooperative by refusing to meet with its leaders in 2011 regarding a physical location.<ref name=SRcoop/> She also worked alongside [[Marlene Wayar]], the founder of El Teje – the first transvestite newspaper in [[Latin America]] – and Secretary of Employment Enrique Deibe to train 500 teachers and education administrators on diversity.<ref name=LaCiu-SRcoop/> The initiative led to 20 LGBT persons obtaining certification of their formal education in both La Matanza and Morón.<ref name=LaCiu-SRcoop/> Sacayán had also worked with Deibe in September 2011<ref>{{cite press release |date=2011-09-27 |title=Jornada de intercambio de experiencias "Travestis, Transexuales y Transgéneros: Economía social y acceso al empleo" |url=https://www.argentina.gob.ar/noticias/jornada-de-intercambio-de-experiencias-travestis-transexuales-y-transgeneros-economia |trans-title=Day of exchange of experiences “Transvestites, Transsexuals and Transgenders: Social economy and access to employment” |website=Argentina.gob.ar |access-date=2024-06-23 |language=es}}</ref> in promoting an event at which she was able to impress upon the nearly 200 attendees the need for travesti, transsexuals, and transgender persons to have access to traditional employment.<ref name=LaCiu-SRcoop/>

After the vicious and brutal attack on Nahuel Albornoz in 2014 in [[Virrey del Pino]], Sacayán – on behalf of MAL – and the group Youth for Diversity (JxD) petitioned for the creation of a division to address the inequalities LGBT persons experience which would also serve to education the community on their rights and actively work towards reducing the stigma associated with being LGBT in Argentina by addressing prejudices derived from erroneous myths.<ref>{{multiref2 |{{cite news |date=2014-07-18 |title=El Senado repudió la agresión que sufrió Albornoz |trans-title=The Senate repudiated the attack suffered by Albornoz |url=https://periodicosic.com.ar/2014/07/18/el-senado-repudio-la-agresion-que-sufrio-albornoz/ |work=Periódico S!C |language=es |access-date=2023-06-24}} |{{cite news |date=2014-07-04 |title=Solicitan la creación de un área de Diversidad Sexual local |trans-title=A request for the creation of a local Sexual Diversity area |url=https://periodicosic.com.ar/2014/07/04/solicitan-la-creacion-de-un-area-de-diversidad-social-local/ |work=Periódico S!C |language=es |access-date=2023-06-24}}}}</ref>

Several of the LGBT civil rights groups came together to work with [[Diana Conti]] in 2014 in an attempt to establish Project 8194 which would require the government to compensate individuals detained by government authorities on the basis of the sexual identity or orientation.<ref>{{cite news |date=2014-11-16 |title=Ley busca resarcir a trans que sufrieron violencia institucional |trans-title=Law seeks to compensate trans people who suffered institutional violence |url=https://periodicosic.com.ar/2014/11/16/la-ley-busca-resarcir-a-trans-que-sufrieron-violencia-institucional/ |work=Periódico S!C |language=es |access-date=2023-06-24}}</ref>

===Visibility===
[[File:Cristina Sacayán DNI.jpg|thumb|Diana Sacayán with the then president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner receiving her National Identity Document, after the Gender Identity Law was approved in 2012 in Argentina.<ref name=MoC-PR/>]]
On 2 July 2012, she received her national identity card as a woman personally from the former president of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.<ref name="ref01">{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/14/argentina-transgender-women-violence-cristina-fernandez |title=Argentina's third violent transgender death in a month sparks call for justice|website=[[TheGuardian.com]]|date=14 October 2015|url-status=live|access-date=26 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015143113/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/14/argentina-transgender-women-violence-cristina-fernandez |archive-date=2015-10-15}}</ref>

Sacayán, along with Berkins, aided in the nationwide demonstration on 3 June 2015 decrying [[femicide]] in Argentina.<ref name=PaG-8>{{cite journal |last=Sosa |first=Lorena |date=2020-09-18 |title=Now You See Me? The Visibility of Trans and Travesti Experiences in Criminal Procedures |url=https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/2804/1746 |journal=Politics and Governance |issn=2183-2463 |volume=8 |issue=3 |pages=266–277 |doi=10.17645/PAG.V8I3.2804 |doi-access=free |s2cid=224980526}}</ref>{{rp|269}} The movement spread to several other countries under the name [[Ni una menos]].<ref name=PaG-8/>{{rp|269}}

===Arrests===
Sacayán was arrested on several occasions for offense code violations after coming out as it was illegal in Buenos Aires at the time to be a travesti.<ref name="elpaistravesticidio"/>  She was arrested on 3 February 2001, in [[Don Bosco, Buenos Aires|Don Bosco]], and charged with robbery.<ref name=UN2002>{{Cite report |title=Question of the Human Rights of All Persons Subjected to Any Form of Detention Or Imprisonment, in Particular, Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman Or Degrading Treatment Or Punishment |date=2002-03-14 |url=https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/462504?ln=en&v=pdf |last=Rodley |first=Sir Nigel S. |author-link=Nigel Rodley |access-date=2024-06-16 |publisher=[[United Nations]] |location=[[Geneva]] |page=13 |language=es}}</ref> She was kept with male prisoners and left without food or blankets for several days.<ref name=UN2002/> After her release, she stated she had been tortured and that the real reason for her arrest was a refusal to bribe the police.<ref>{{cite book |last=Vaird |first=Vanessa |date=July 2004 |title=Sex, Love, & Homophobia: Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender lives |publisher=[[Amnesty International]] |pages=106–107 |isbn=1873328575}}</ref> The Undersecretary of Justice of the [[Buenos Aires Province|province of Buenos Aires]] admitted to keeping Sacayán in Don Bosco due to her being a travesti, and the head of that section of the jail filed a report on Sacayán's 'aggressiveness'.<ref name=UN2002/> On 19 December 2001, Sacayán was arrested again, this time for her role in protests.<ref name=LP2003-CP/>{{rp|4, 7}}

She met [[Lohana Berkins]] when she spent nine months in prison in [[Florencio Varela, Buenos Aires|Florencio Varela]].<ref name=LP2003-CP/>{{rp|7}} Berkins provided legal aid as well as discussing the Unified Left with Sacayán.<ref name=LP2003-CP/>{{rp|7}} When discussing her time in police custody in a 2012 editorial, Sacayán plainly stated how an officer beat her repeatedly and demanded that she renounce herself.<ref>{{cite news |last=Sacayán |first=Diana |date=2012-11-09 |title=Ya no somos las travas resentidas que tirábamos piedras |url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/suplementos/soy/subnotas/2697-253-2012-11-09.html |work=[[Página 12|Pagina 12]] |language=es |access-date=2024-06-14 |edition=I Am}}</ref>

When she was arrested alongside her sister Johana on 10 July 2004,<ref name=ANRed-HA04>{{cite news |date=2004-12-29 |title=Organizaciones GLTTB y de Derechos Humanos Lograron que Diana Sacayán Salga de la Cárcel, pero sigue con Arresto Domiciliario y Luchan por su Desprocesamiento |trans-title=GLTTB and Human Rights Organizations Got Diana Sacayán Out of Prison, but she's Still Under House Arrest and Fighting to be Deprocessed |url=https://www.anred.org/2004/12/30/resumen-de-noticias-no-5-organizaciones-pasaron-la-navidad-en-plaza-de-mayo-para-exigir-la-libertad-de-los-presos-politicos/ |work=Agencia de Noticias RedAcción |access-date=2024-06-14 |language=es}}</ref> the feminist socialist group Bread and Roses [[:es:Pan y Rosas (agrupación)|[es]]] supported her actions.<ref name=IDQ101415>{{cite news |last=Loccolo |first=Tom More |date=2015-10-14 |title=Encontraron muerta a Diana Sacayan, luchadora contra la transfobia |trans-title=Diana Sacayan, a fighter against transphobia, found dead |url=https://www.laizquierdadiario.com/Encontraron-muerta-a-Diana-Sacayan-luchadora-contra-la-transfobia |work=[[La Izquierda Diario]] |access-date=2024-06-13 |language=es}}</ref> Supporters from multiple groups – a total of at least 4,000 people – gathered in the [[Plaza de Mayo]] and demanded the release of several prisoners who had been held solely for political reasons.<ref>{{cite news |date=2004-12-23 |title=Las organizaciones que acampan en Plaza de Mayo realizarán una conferencia de prensa |trans-title=The organizations camping in Plaza de Mayo will hold a press conference |url=https://www.anred.org/2004/12/23/las-organizaciones-que-acampan-en-plaza-de-mayo-realizaran-una-conferencia-de-prensa/ |work=Agencia de Noticias RedAcción |access-date=2024-06-14 |language=es}}</ref> Police released Sacayán from jail but kept her on house arrest.<ref name=ANRed-HA04/> Both Diana and Johana had filed eleven complaints against the Laferrere fourth precinct for unlawful [[Arbitrary arrest and detention|arbitrary detentions]]; Diana had testified before the Secretariat for Human Rights in Buenos Aires three times and the [[Ministry of Justice and Human Rights (Argentina)|Ministry of Justice]] once.<ref name=ANRed-HA04/>

On 9 July 2015, while Sacayán and fellow trans activist Sonia Pamela Díaz waited to board the [[Metrobús (Buenos Aires)|Metrobús]], someone walking past spat insults at them and began to physically assault them.<ref name=LQD-2015>{{cite news |date=2015-08-27 |title=Solidaridad de dirigentes del PTS con Diana Sacayán y Martín Lanfranco ante la represión policial |trans-title=Solidarity of PTS leaders with Diana Sacayán and Martín Lanfranco in the face of police repression |url=https://www.laizquierdadiario.com/Solidaridad-de-dirigentes-del-PTS-con-Diana-Sacayan-y-Martin-Lanfranco-ante-la-represion-policial |work=[[La Izquierda Diario]] |access-date=2024-06-13 |language=es}}</ref> Police responded by arresting Sacayán, Díaz, and another activist, Martín Lanfranco;<ref name=LQD-2015/> Sacayán stated that the officers used a taser on her.<ref name=TVP-15>{{cite news |date=2015-09-02 |title=Visión 7 - Activistas trans denuncian a la Metropolitana |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhNSUvb5FN4 |work=[[Televisión Pública]] |language=es |via=[[YouTube]] |access-date=2024-06-14}}</ref> Sacayán had been pushed into traffic in front of an oncoming taxi, but it was able to brake and avoid hitting her.<ref name=LQD-2015/> Police released the activists the following morning,<ref name=LQD-2015/> after detaining them between nine and ten hours, prompting Sacayán to file a complaint.<ref name=TVP-15/>

== Death ==
Sacayán was murdered in her apartment in [[Flores, Buenos Aires]] between the evening of 10 October and the morning of 11 October 2015 by two assailants. She was handcuffed, gagged, and brutally beaten. One of the assailants kicked her in the face so hard that part of the sole of their shoe was lodged in the skin under her chin. She was stabbed 13 times.<ref name=Agencia52518>{{cite news |last1=Ludueña |first1=María Eugenia |last2=Fornaro |first2=Ana |date=2018-05-25 |title=#DianaSacayán "La muerte violenta de una travesti es un travesticidio", dijo fiscalía |trans-title=#DianaSacayán "The violent death of a transvestite is a transvesticide," said the prosecutor's office |url=https://agenciapresentes.org/2018/05/25/dianasacayan-la-muerte-violenta-de-una-travesti-es-un-travesticidio-dijo-fiscalia/ |work=Agencia Presentes |language=es |access-date=2024-06-13}}</ref>

[[File:Militante de M.A.L.jpg|thumb|Protestor in the March from the Plaza de Mayo to Congress, the first national march against transvesticide, 28 June 2016.<ref name=1stmarch/>]]
Days afterward, a hundred people gathered in [[La Plata]] in a rally to protest Sacayán's murder.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Derni |first1=Mariana |last2=Litterni |first2=Natalia |date=2015-10-14 |title=Ni Una Menos. Concentración en La Plata por el asesinato de Diana Sacayán |url=https://www.laizquierdadiario.com/Concentracion-en-La-Plata-por-el-asesinato-de-Diana-Sacayan |work=[[La Izquierda Diario]] |access-date=2024-06-14 |language=es}}</ref> Activists continued to protest the following year when the case remained unsolved; the first national march against killing of tranvestites, beginning at the Plaza de Mayo and ending at the Congress building, took place on 28 June 2016.<ref name=1stmarch>{{cite news |date=2016-06-29 |title=Primera Marcha Nacional contra los Travesticidios |trans-title=First National March against Transvesticides |url=https://www.anred.org/2016/06/29/primera-marcha-nacional-contra-los-travesticidios-2/ |work=Agencia de Noticias RedAcción |access-date=2024-06-14 |language=es}}</ref>

One of the complaints about how the investigation into Sacayán's murder was being handled is that police treated it as a femicide only.<ref>{{cite news |last=Bonilla |first=Natalia |date=2016-07-05 |title=El doble rechazo de las mujeres trans en Argentina |trans-title=The double rejection of trans women in Argentina |url=https://elpais.com/elpais/2016/07/04/planeta_futuro/1467627561_131664.html |work=[[El País|El Pais]] |access-date=2024-06-13 |language=es}}</ref> [[Amnesty International]] responded to the gruesome murder, stating that if Argentina didn't effectively investigate and prosecute the perpetrators, those who killed Sacayán – as well as the individuals responsible for the murders of Marcela Chocobar and Coty Olmos that occurred within the month prior to Sacayán's death – would understand the lack of action as tacit approval to murder trans people.<ref>{{cite news |date=2015-10-15 |title=Argentina transgender killings spark outcry |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-34538052 |work=[[BBC News]] |access-date=2024-06-13}}</ref>

The police arrested two suspects: Gabriel David Marino and Felix R.<ref name=CR121215>{{cite news |date=2016-11-09 |title=Juzgarán a un acusado por el travesticidio de Diana Sacayán |trans-title=They will judge an accused for the transvesticicide of Diana Sacayán |url=https://www.cosecharoja.org/juzgaran-un-acusado-por-el-travesticidio-de-diana-sacayan/ |work=Cosecha Roja |access-date=2024-06-13 |language=es}}</ref> Because there was insufficient evidence to prosecute Felix R., the plaintiffs in the case requested that Marino be put on trial alone to keep the case from being closed 'unsolved'.<ref>{{cite news |date=2016-11-19 |title=El crimen de Diana Sacayán puede quedar impune |trans-title=Diana Sacayán's murder may go unpunished |url=https://www.cosecharoja.org/el-crimen-de-diana-sacayan-puede-quedar-impune/ |work=Cosecha Roja |access-date=2024-06-13 |language=es}}</ref> On 14 February 2018, Oral Criminal Court 4 ruled that Marino would remain in custody until at least 27 June 2018 pending the outcome of the trial.<ref name=GMtrial/>

The trial for Marino began on 12 March 2018.<ref name=GMtrial>{{cite news |date=2018-02-14 |title=Postergan el juicio por el travesticidio de Diana Sacayán: empieza el 12 de marzo |trans-title=The trial for the transvesticicide of Diana Sacayán is postponed: it begins on March 12 |url=https://agenciapresentes.org/2018/02/14/postergan-juicio-travesticidio-diana-sacayan-empieza-12-marzo/ |work=Agencia Presentes |language=es |access-date=2024-06-13}}</ref> For the first time in history, the Argentine Justice acknowledged that the murder was "a hate crime against the travesti identity", known as "travesticide"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aacademica.org/blas.radi/15.pdf|access-date=April 10, 2019|year=2016|title=Travesticide / transfemicide: Coordinates to think crimes against travestis and trans women in Argentina|last1=Radi|first1=Blas|last2=Sardá-Chandiramani|first2=Alejandra|work=Bulletin of the Gender Observatory of the Justice of the City of Buenos Aires|publisher=Acta Académica}}</ref> or "transvesticide"<ref name="batravesticidio">{{cite web|url=http://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/killer-handed-life-sentence-for-brutal-murder-in-historic-transvesticide-trial.phtml|title=Killer handed life sentence for brutal murder in historic transvesticide trial|work=[[Buenos Aires Herald]]|date=June 18, 2018|access-date=April 10, 2019}}</ref> (Spanish: ''travesticidio''; a [[portmanteau]] of "travesti" and "homicide").<ref name="elpaistravesticidio"/> Marino was sentenced to life imprisonment on 18 June 2018.<ref>{{cite news |date=2018-06-18 |title=Perpetua por el travesticidio de Diana Sacayán |trans-title=Life for the transvesticicide of Diana Sacayán |url=https://www.cosecharoja.org/cadena-perpetua-diana-sacayan/ |work=Cosecha Roja |language=es |access-date=2024-06-13}}</ref> The ruling was widely celebrated by LGBT activists and has been considered "one more example of the [social] changes underway in Argentina."<ref name="elpaistravesticidio">{{cite news|url=https://elpais.com/internacional/2018/06/18/argentina/1529347548_002191.html|language=es|title=Condena inédita en Argentina por el travesticidio de la activista Diana Sacayán |trans-title=Unprecedented conviction in Argentina for the transvesticicide of activist Diana Sacayán|access-date=April 10, 2019|date=June 19, 2018|work=[[El País]]|first=Mar|last=Centenera |url-access=registration}}</ref> The verdict was celebrated by INADI as progress towards an inclusive Argentina.<ref>{{cite press release |date=2018-06-18 |title=Condena histórica por el asesinato de Diana Sacayán |trans-title=Historic conviction for the murder of Diana Sacayán |url=https://www.argentina.gob.ar/noticias/condena-historica-por-el-asesinato-de-diana-sacayan |work=[[Ministry of Justice and Human Rights (Argentina)|Argentina Ministry of Justice and Human Rights]] |language=es |access-date=2024-06-13}}</ref>

On 7 February 2019, Minister [[Patricia Bullrich]] offered a reward of 500,000 [[Argentine peso|Argentine pesos]] using resolution 67/2019 for information leading to the arrest of the second assailant.<ref name=infobae2019>{{cite news |date=2019-02-17 |title=Ofrecen $500 mil de recompensa para encontrar al coautor del crimen de la activista trans Diana Sacayán |trans-title=They offer a 500,000 peso reward to find the co-conspirator in the murder of trans activist Diana Sacayán |url=https://www.infobae.com/sociedad/policiales/2019/02/07/ofrecen-500-mil-de-recompensa-para-encontrar-al-coautor-del-crimen-de-la-activista-trans-diana-sacayan/ |work=[[Infobae]] |access-date=2024-06-13 |language=es}}</ref> The amount was increased to 2 million Argentine pesos on 12 January 2022, per Resolution 36/2022.<ref>{{cite news |date=2022-01-12 |title=Diana Sacayán: llevaron a dos millones de pesos la recompensa para dar con el coautor del travesticidio |trans-title=Diana Sacayán: the reward was raised to two million pesos to find the co-conspirator of the transvesticicide |url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/394862-diana-sacayan-llevaron-a-dos-millones-de-pesos-la-recompensa |work=[[Página 12]] |language=es |access-date=2024-06-13}}</ref>

On 2 October 2020, the National Chamber of Cassation in Criminal and Correctional Matters confirmed Marino's conviction; however, they removed the transvesticide aspect, stating only that it was aggravated violence based on Sacayán's gender.<ref name=MoC-PR>{{cite press release |date=2020-12-30 |title=Diana Sacayán, símbolo de la lucha contra la transfobia |trans-title=Diana Sacayán, symbol of the fight against transphobia |url=https://www.cultura.gob.ar/diana-sacayan-activista-travesti-matanzera-que-promovio-el-cupo-trans-9949/ |website=Argentina Secretaría de Cultura de la Nación |access-date=2024-06-13}}</ref> In his decision, Judge Jorge Luis Rimondi commented that the cuts to Sacayán's breasts did not indicate an intent to convey a message regarding her gender identity.<ref name=Clarin2020/> He also cited a lack of any previous report from Sacayán that Marino had expressed transphobic views and that the murder did not occur on a significant date for the LGBT community as grounds to rescind the travesti specific aspect of the judgement.<ref name=Clarin2020/> The judges also disputed the autopsy report, saying that there were only 4 stab wounds; the medical examiner recorded a total of 27 wounds on Sacayán's body, 13 of which were caused by a 20-inch blade.<ref name=Clarin2020>{{cite news |date=2020-10-06 |title=Confirman la prisión perpetua para el asesino de Diana Sacayán, pero sin el agravante por odio de género |trans-title=Life imprisonment confirmed for the murderer of Diana Sacayán, but without the aggravating circumstance of gender hatred |url=https://www.clarin.com/sociedad/confirman-prision-perpetua-asesino-diana-sacayan-agravante-odio-genero_0_sVBSflGUa.html |work=[[Clarín (Argentine newspaper)|Clarín]] |language=es|access-date=2024-06-13}}</ref>

== Legacy ==
On 17 September 2015, the Buenos Aires legislature passed [[Diana Sacayán Law|Law 14783]] [[:es:Ley Diana Sacayán|[es]]], or the Travesti Transsexual Job Quota Law, which made it a requirement that 1% of the jobs in public administration be provided to qualified travesti, transsexuals, and transgender people.<ref>{{cite news |last=Lahrichi |first=Kamilla |date=2015-09-19 |title=Argentine province adopts law requiring transgender hires |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/09/19/buenos-aires-province-argentina-transgender-people-employees/72468786/ |work=[[USA Today]] |access-date=2024-06-14}}</ref> Sacayán had started lobbying for the legislation in 2010,<ref>{{cite news |date=2018-07-16 |title=Cupo laboral travesti-trans: la ley Diana Sacayán en el Congreso |trans-title=Transvestite-trans job quota: the Diana Sacayán law in Congress |url=https://latfem.org/cupo-laboral-travesti-trans-la-ley-diana-sacayan-en-el-congreso/ |work=LatFem |language=es |access-date=2024-06-13}}</ref> working alongside other groups and with representative Karina Nazábal.<ref name=TelamAV-f6eO_I7GnNM>{{Cite AV media |title=Es ley el cupo laboral para trans y travestis en la administración pública boanerense |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6eO_I7GnNM |date=2015-09-22 |type=Television production |language=es |publisher=[[Télam]] |trans-title=The job quota for trans and transvestites in the Buenos Aires public administration is law |via=[[YouTube]] |access-date=2024-06-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=2014-03-28 |title=Organizaciones trans refuerzan proyectos que mejoran su calidad de vida |trans-title=Trans organizations reinforce projects that improve their quality of life |url=https://periodicosic.com.ar/2014/03/28/organizaciones-trans-refuerzan-proyectos-que-mejoran-la-calidad-de-vida-del-sector/ |work=Periódico S!C |access-date=2024-06-23 |language=es}}</ref> Regardless of its passage, however, the government of Buenos Aires did not enforce the law.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bistagnino |first1=Paula |last2=Caminos |first2=Luciana |date=2019-05-10 |title=Mapa del cupo laboral travesti-trans en Argentina |trans-title=Map of the transvestite-trans job quota in Argentina |url=https://latinta.com.ar/2019/05/10/mapa-cupo-laboral-travesti-trans-argentina/ |work=Agencia Presentes |language=es |access-date=2024-06-13}}</ref>

On 11 June 2021, the [[Argentine Chamber of Deputies]] approved the [[Diana Sacayán – Lohana Berkins Law]], enacting the 1% quota on a national level. It also included incentives for private firms to recruit travesti, transsexual, and transgender employees. It passed with 207 votes in favor, 11 against and 7 abstentions.<ref>{{cite news |last=Brunetto |first=Santiago |date=2021-06-11 |title=Diputados dio media sanción al proyecto de cupo e inclusión laboral travesti trans |trans-title=Deputies gave half sanction to the transvestite transsexual quota and labor inclusion project |url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/347534-diputados-dio-media-sancion-al-proyecto-de-cupo-e-inclusion- |work=[[Página 12]] |language=es |access-date=2024-06-13}}</ref> On 24 June 2021, the [[Argentine Senate]] passed the act into law, with 55 Senators approving the measure, 1 voting against it, and 6 abstentions.<ref>{{cite news |last=Gitraich |first=Ariel |date=2021-06-24 |title=El cupo laboral travesti trans ya es ley en Argentina |trans-title=The transvestite trans job quota is now law in Argentina |url=https://agenciapresentes.org/2021/06/24/la-inclusion-laboral-travesti-trans-es-ley-en-argentina/ |work=Agencia Presentes |language=es |access-date=2024-06-13}}</ref>

On 2 July 2023, the [[Google Doodle]] depicted Sacayán.<ref>{{multiref2 |{{cite web |date=2023-07-02 |title=Celebrating Diana Sacayán |url=https://doodles.google/doodle/celebrating-diana-sacayan/ |website=[[Google]] |access-date=2024-06-13}} |{{cite news |last=Iricibar |first=Valen |date=2023-07-02 |title=Google Doodle honors travesti activist Diana Sacayán |url=https://buenosairesherald.com/culture-ideas/google-doodle-honors-travesti-activist-diana-sacayan |newspaper=[[Buenos Aires Herald]] |access-date=2024-06-13}}}}</ref> On 11 October 2023, [[Casa Rosada]], the official workplace of the President of Argentina, hung an enlarged photograph of Sacayán and one of [[Claudia Pía Baudracco]] in the women's and dissidents' room.<ref>{{cite news |last=Ponsone |first=Julián |date=2023-10-20 |title=Las travas a la Rosada |url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/599109-las-travas-a-la-rosada |work=[[Página 12]] |access-date=2024-06-13 |language=es}}</ref> On 8 March 2024 – [[International Women's Day]] – President [[Javier Milei]] changed the name of the room to the "Hall of Heroes" and removed all pictures of women activists hanging on its walls, with a spokesperson arguing for Milei that having a room celebrating women is discriminatory to men.<ref>{{cite news |date=2024-03-08 |title=Milei cambiará el nombre del Salón de las Mujeres de la Casa Rosada |trans-title=Milei will change the name of the Women's Room of the Casa Rosada |url=https://www.diariopopular.com.ar/politica/milei-cambiara-el-nombre-del-salon-las-mujeres-la-casa-rosada-n776573 |work=[[Diario Popular]] |language=es |access-date=2024-06-25}}</ref>

A documentary titled "Fue travesticidio" has garnered several prizes, including the Work in Progress prize for the 36th Festival de la Mujer y El Cine in 2024.<ref>{{cite news |last=Monfort |first=Flor |date=2024-05-08 |title=La película "Fue travesticidio" volvió a ser premiada y necesita más apoyo para terminar su realización |trans-title=The film "It Was Travesticide" was awarded again and needs more support to finish its production |url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/734747-la-pelicula-soy-travesticidio-volvio-a-ser-premiada-y-necesi |work=[[Página 12]] |access-date=2024-06-13 |language=es}}</ref>

== Writings ==
Sacayán frequently wrote for El Teje magazine and was the editor of the "I Am" supplement of [[Página 12]].<ref name=IDQ101415/>

*''La gesta del nombre propio'' (2006), {{ISBN|9789871231119}}
*''Cumbia, competeos y lágrimas'' (2008), {{ISBN|9789871231799}}
*Blog de Movimiento Antidiscriminatorio de Liberación (M. A. L.)<ref name="blogspot">{{cite web|url=http://grupomal.blogspot.com.ar/|website=grupomal.blogspot.com.ar|title=M.A.L. Movimiento antidiscriminatorio de liberacion &#124; Grupo MAL |access-date=26 November 2017}}</ref>

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